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Antonyms for sin

Grammar : Noun, verb


Definition of sin

Origin :
  • Old English synn "moral wrongdoing, injury, mischief, enmity, feud, guilt, crime, offense against God, misdeed," from Proto-Germanic *sun(d)jo- "sin" (cf. Old Saxon sundia, Old Frisian sende, Middle Dutch sonde, Dutch zonde, German Sünde "sin, transgression, trespass, offense," extended forms), probably ultimately "it is true," i.e. "the sin is real" (cf. Gothic sonjis, Old Norse sannr "true"), from PIE *snt-ya-, a collective form from *es-ont- "becoming," present participle of root *es- "to be" (see is).
  • The semantic development is via notion of "to be truly the one (who is guilty)," as in Old Norse phrase verð sannr at "be found guilty of," and the use of the phrase "it is being" in Hittite confessional formula. The same process probably yielded the Latin word sons (genitive sontis) "guilty, criminal" from present participle of sum, esse "to be, that which is." Some etymologists believe the Germanic word was an early borrowing directly from the Latin genitive. Cf. also sooth.
  • Sin-eater is attested from 1680s. To live in sin "cohabit without marriage" is from 1838; used earlier in a more general sense. Ice hockey slang sin bin "penalty box" is attested from 1950.
  • noun illegal or immoral action
  • verb commit illegal or immoral action
Example sentences :
  • Or is there really no sin but in thought, and are our sleeping thoughts incapable of sin?
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • They were sick-and so were the purest of their brethren—with the plague of sin.
  • Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Do not let this great and disastrous fall sink you into lower depths of sin.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • Never before had he seen his sin in the light in which it was now revealed by God's Word.
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • Sin brings its punishment, and it is hard work, bearing its burden!
  • Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
  • What might be unavoidable to one less instructed, would be sin in her!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • It were sin, thought I, that my secret should perish with me.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Shakespeare told us the truth about himself when he wrote in sonnet 142, "Love is my sin."
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Our sickness (sin) is revealed to us by the Ten Commandments.
  • Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
  • If we have fallen into disgrace by sin, we should repent and lead a better life.
  • Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump

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